Internet cafe thieves forget to log out of Facebook

Two armed men using computers in an Internet cafe in Cali, Colombia, finished their web browsing and then held up the cashier and ran away. Only one problem, reports the Colombian-based El Tiempo:

Both men escaped with all the money on a stolen motorcycle, but the Internet cafe administrator noticed that one man neglected to log out of his Facebook account prior to making the escape. When Colombian investigators arrived at the cafe, they used the information on his Facebook account to figure out his home address and subsequently made an arrest.

This isn’t the first time that a person committing a robbery has neglected to log out of Facebook before leaving their victim’s home or business. During August 2009, a teenager named Jonathan Parker broke into a Martinsburg, West Virginia home and stole two diamond rings from the homeowner.

Prior to making his escape, he sat down at the homeowner’s computer and checked up on his Facebook account. When he left the home, Parker’s Facebook account was still open in the laptop’s Web browser.